Harry Cording

Biography

Hector William “Harry” Cording was a British character actor. Cording was brought up and educated in his native England, and later settled permanently in Los Angeles, where he began a film career in 1925. He appeared in many Hollywood films from then to the 1950s. With an imposing six-foot height and stocky build, Harry the Henchman usually portrayed thugs, villains' henchmen and policemen. Cording's most notable roles were probably as the villainous Dickon Malbete, Captain of the Guard in Errol Flynn's Adventures of Robin Hood and as Thamal, the hulking henchman to Bela Lugosi's character in 1934's Black Cat. As a contract player at Universal Pictures in the 1940s, he turned up in tiny parts in many of their horror films, such as The Wolf Man. Having appeared in a bit role in 20th Century-Fox's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone (1939), he went on to appear in supporting and bit parts in seven of the twelve Universal Studios Sherlock Holmes films in which Rathbone starred.

Known For

Hibbs (uncredited)

Cripple Creek

Chauffeur McNabb

A Woman's Vengeance

Mob Leader (uncredited)

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Innkeeper (uncredited)

The Secret Of St. Ives

Hamid

Dressed to Kill

Matt Wayne

Hot Cargo

Thamal

The Black Cat

John Simpson

The House of Fear

George Gelder (uncredited)

The Pearl of Death

Wykes (uncredited)

The Wolf Man

Blacksmith Hawkins

The House of the Seven Gables

Miner (uncredited)

The Invisible Man Returns

Supt. Saunders

Killer Leopard

Detective Sgt. Bates

Man in the Attic

Second Heavy

Daredevil's Reward

Second Guard

The Prince and the Pauper

Cleve Gregg

The Big Trees

Mahmoud

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Gow

Against All Flags

Sailor Who Knocks Out Capt. Winter (uncredited)

The Sea Ghost

Jim - the Second Guard (uncredited)

Crime School

Kent

Captain Blood

The Strange Door

Captain of King's Guards (uncredited)

The Black Shield of Falworth

Guard (uncredited)

Peter Ibbetson

The Iroquois Trail

Stefan

The Patriot

Will Ward

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Corporal at Base (uncredited)

They Met in Bombay

Sutliff (uncredited)

Two Tickets to London

Gus

The Fatal Witness

Townsman (uncredited)

Law and Order

Verna’s Father (uncredited)

Road to Bali

Col. Ramsey's Overseer (uncredited)

Captain Pirate

Castelaine Spokesman (uncredited)

King Richard and the Crusaders

Turnkey (uncredited)

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Boiler Room Engineer (uncredited)

Titanic

Sailor (uncredited)

Sea Devils

Policeman (Uncredited)

Bluebeard

Stableman (uncredited)

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

Ted Driscoll

Night Stage to Galveston

Buccaneer's Girl

Customer (Uncredited)

Sweepings

Peter

The Squall

First Orderly

Captured!

Joe Burch

Daniel Boone

Captain Greeder

The Great Alaskan Mystery

Arresting British Trooper (uncredited)

Sons of Liberty

Mike Bridges

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Dr. William G. Davis

Narcotic

Sergeant Dostal

Bride of the Regiment

Gendarme Arresting Yvette (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in Paris

Chick Carson

Rough Romance

Kirghiz Soldier at Fort Darvaz

New Moon

Brown

Last of the Buccaneers

Le Bruin

Captain of the Guard

Cramer

The Intruder

Tribesman

Strange Wives

Tea Planter (uncredited)

Calcutta

Blackie

Rawhide Rangers

Seaman Lars

Sutter's Gold

Miner (uncredited)

The Moon Is Down

Vic - Farmer (uncredited)

The Mummy's Tomb

Orlando (uncredited)

That Lady in Ermine

Courtroom Spectator Next to Carol (uncredited)

Phantom Lady

Rough Character in the Park

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Hospital Storekeeper (uncredited)

The White Angel

Duke

Fool's Gold

Guard Accepting Bribe

Devil's Island

Bullet Line Blacksmith

Stand Up and Fight

Bearded Gendarme (uncredited)

Son of Frankenstein

Master Sergeant (uncredited)

Sirocco

Man Stealing Watermelon (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Whiskey Joe

Arizona Legion

Zurof Camp Guard

The Sun Never Sets

Lead Murderer of the Children

Tower of London

Man Carrying Leni

We Are Not Alone

Jailer

We Live Again

Temple

Each Dawn I Die

Bos'un

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Pete Brannigan

Stage to Chino

Creepy - Lends Tom Guns (uncredited)

Destry Rides Again

Guard (uncredited)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Soldier

The Light That Failed

Second Fake Constable (uncredited)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Henchman Bat Cardigan

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Chill Scarpelli

Night Beat

Miner Leading Mob (uncredited)

Heart of the North

Wade Garson

King of the Royal Mounted

Clancy

Texas Stagecoach

Deputy (uncredited)

The Grapes of Wrath

Iron Joe Martin

Fugitive from Sonora

Logger (uncredited)

The Country Doctor

Bouncer (uncredited)

East of Eden

Dannick - Crooked Construction Foreman

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

Man in Mob About to Set 'Clermont' Afire

Little Old New York

Greer

Valley of the Giants

Dickon Malbete

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Henchman Shanks

Jungle Gents

Soldier (uncredited)

Mutiny on the Bounty

Poe Daggett

Law and Order

Phil

Trail of the Vigilantes

J. L. Red Clinton

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

Mike, Cork's Henchman

The Lady from Cheyenne

Rigby Henchman

When the Daltons Rode

Workman in Delaware Crossing (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail

Angry Townsman in Bank

Dark Command

Scarecrow - Union Prisoner at Libby (uncredited)

Virginia City

Ivanovitch

The World and the Flesh

Revolutionary (Uncredited)

Scarlet Dawn

Slavemaster

The Sea Hawk

Guard (uncredited)

Strange Cargo

Morgan

Dangerous Venture

Sailor on the Nova Scotian (uncredited)

A Dispatch from Reuters

Leader

Florian

Rogue

Don't You Believe It

Colby Man Fred (uncredited)

To the Last Man

Sam Dawson (guard with whip)

Road Gang

Dick Torpe

Christina

Henchman Driver

The Girl in 419

Shayne MacGregor

Brave Warrior

Blacksmith Higgins

Riders of the Badlands

Sam Gregg - Henchman

Overland Mail

John King

The Man from the Rio Grande

Riker

The Marauders

Hawkins

Trail of the Mounties

Jackson

Badlands of Dakota

Saloon Bouncer

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Poker Player (uncredited)

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Miner (uncredited)

The Spoilers

Moose Legrande

Santa Fe

Jack Brady (uncredited)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Card Player (uncredited)

So Ends Our Night

Blacksmith

Arabian Nights

Jake Farwell

Texas Cyclone

Fred Garvin (uncredited)

The Spider Woman

Ivan (uncredited)

Mata Hari

Waiter (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol

Mock the Undertaker (uncredited)

Terror by Night

Camberwell

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Rouge's Henchman

The Right of Way

Peasant (Uncredited)

The Soldier and the Lady

Bartender

Inside Job

Crow's Nest Manager (uncredited)

Singapore Woman

Ross Clinton (uncredited)

The Cabin in the Cotton

Sampson Edwards

Tyrant of the Sea

Peasant Rebel Leader (uncredited)

Song of Revolt

Revolutionist (uncredited)

The Last Command

Captain Marver

Gypsy Wildcat

Uba

Sudan

Butch Daggett

The Conquering Horde

Kouski

Honor of the Family

Man Who Flails the Mayor

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Blacksmith (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

Michele

File 113

Roundhead (uncredited)

The Exile

Guard (Uncredited)

Maid of Salem

Orlick

Great Expectations

Gambler (uncredited)

Red River

Seaman (Uncredited)

Rulers of the Sea

Warrior (uncredited)

Road to Morocco

Convict in Prison Yard (uncredited)

Convicted

Hotel House Detective

Lydia

Police Chief (uncredited)

Lost in a Harem

Newgate Prison Warder (uncredited)

Captain Kidd

Stoker (uncredited)

Ship Cafe

Steve McKenna

The Knockout

Bobby

The Man in Half Moon Street

Coachman with Frightened Horses (uncredited)

Devotion

Zio d'Orsini

Mask of the Avenger

Guard (uncredited)

You Only Live Once

Leader (uncredited)

Tap Roots

Eddie Lindo

The Great Plane Robbery

Executioner (uncredited)

Marie Antoinette

Henchman Burke

Painted Desert

Pirate (uncredited)

Naughty Marietta

Village Dairyman (uncredited)

The Story of Dr. Jenner

Fred (uncredited)

Merrily We Go to Hell

Haskins

Black Jack

The Hijacker

Sins of the Fathers

Harmon

Mutiny in the Arctic

Jeffers

Passport to Alcatraz

Sentry (uncredited)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Humphrey

Mrs. Parkington

Louie (uncredited)

Black Fury

Rawlins

Raiders of the Desert

Edward Vane

13 Lead Soldiers

Gallagher

The Isle of Lost Ships

Miner (uncredited)

California

Beam Warder

Les Misérables

Man (uncredited)

The House of Rothschild

Guard (uncredited)

The Black Arrow

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

192

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-04-25

Place of Birth

Wellington, Somerset, England, UK

Also Known As

Hector William Cording